Memorial Day was originally called "Decoration Day." In 1869, the head of an organization of Union veterans, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, established Decoration Day as a way for the nation to honor the graves of those who died in the Civil War with flowers, according to the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department (US Archives)
Let me begin by expressing my great AWE, and RESPECT, for the Individuals who placed FREEDOMS, LIBERTIES, JUSTICE, and DEMOCRACY above and beyond their own LIVES! Heroes are, oftentimes, those who understand that to SACRIFICE does not require a CAPE, or MAGICAL abilities, or SUPERPOWERS, but a will to do what they believe is the right thing, which often times becomes greater than themselves!
But back to the Original holiday, called DECORATION DAY. The UNION as in the North wanted to honor those AMERICANS, not the CONFEDERACY, who fought a war, not created by them, but forced upon them, by RACISTS/BIGOTS/ and SELF-PROCLAIMED owners of a very vengeful GOD. Sometimes it was Family fighting Family, Friend fighting Friend, and sadly AMERICAN fighting, ENEMIES of the STATE, once identifying as AMERICANS. For me as I read and re-read AMERICAN HISTORY, the most unsettling lesson I learned was that HATE/LOATHING/IGNORANCE initiated by those who decided that PROFITS as in retaining SLAVERY as a business, was a PRIORITY; and INSISTING that “THE OTHER,” was an ADVERSARY was the way forward, and their GOD’S will!
DECORATION DAY, 2022. Shamefully, this AMERICA has fallen into the shadows of having never learned any lessons from HISTORY, and as I look around, I see way too many similarities, from a SHAMEFUL, SINFUL, STUPID PAST! I have to wonder, how many MAGA/CONFEDERATE/NAZI/TRUMP Flags will be flown full of HYPOCRISY, waving on the lawns of those who actually seem to hate this NATION. For those who have PERISHED trying desperately to save DEMOCRACY, there are still many of us who hope your deaths were not in vain!
